Policy Briefs
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The Financial Turmoil of 2007-XX: Sinners and Their Sins
Publication -Policy Briefs -The financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 in the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. -
Reforming Medicaid in Florida
Publication -Policy Briefs -Medicaid, the joint Federal-State program that was created to provide health care for the poor, celebrated its 40th birthday in 2006. There was no party for the program. -
Keeping a Good Thing Going
Publication -Policy Briefs -The numbers speak for themselves. After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated Louisiana in 2005, more than $15 billion in private-sector insurance money flowed in to rebuild the state and its neighbors. -
Reform Ideas Offered for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.
Publication -Policy Briefs -Louisiana's Commission on Streamlining Government has recommended phasing out the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. -
Michigan’s FAIR Legislation Is Fundamentally Flawed
Publication -Policy Briefs -A legislative initiative called Fair, Affordable Insurance Rates (FAIR) is poised to begin gathering signatures throughout Michigan. -
Amicus Brief: Deseret Power Electric Cooperative
Publication -Policy Briefs -U.S. EPA issued a Clean Air Act permit last year to the Deseret Power Electric Cooperative, ending a three year process costing the utility millions of dollars. -
Economic Markets and Political Markets
Publication -Policy Briefs -Economist Jim Johnston explains the differences between political markets, such as the one created for trading sulfur dioxide emissions, and real markets, such as futures markets for natural gas. -
Which Industries Are Regulated?
Publication -Policy Briefs -A general theory is offered here to explain why some industries are usually regulated and other industries are not. According to the theory regulation exists only when three simultaneous conditions are met.